#courtship-quotes

[thepersonalwords]

Love sets you free the moment it arrests you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[quotelr]

If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[luxthestrange]

WTDSIK Incorrect Quotes#35 Human courting

You and Kalego, Balam sitting down with tea and snacks...courtesy of an injured Henri who promptly asks you to not break into his house again...You three discuss the situation of being Iruma's official parents...and your story with Iruma is a tale for another time~

Y/n*Sips on tea and looks a the two*Am I boring?SURE!

Kalego:...

Balam*Knows it isn't the time for him to explode in the excitement that you a grown-up human are talking to him*...

Y/n: Social skills?NONE!

Y/n*Points at the two*But Im loyal AND Protective if you feed me and iruma, AND I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU!!! BECAUSE-well we need the food...

part 4 of:

[alissondiva26]

Self Love ❤️❤️❤️ Feel free to lick and kiss your screen 💯💋

[halfagony-halfhope]

i need to say it… i still haven’t watched the trailer of the new bridget jones movie. why would anyone that killing darcy is a good idea?

[howifeltabouthim]

'I believe I need another look at someone who writes such a charming letter,' he said.

Amy Hempel, from The Dog of the Marriage

[sassyspicysweet]

Yes

[incorrectstarwarslegendsquotes]

Isolder: It's important, alright? I have to keep this physique tight! Tenenial Djo: For what? Isolder: Kissing. Tenenial Djo: What?

[phlebaswrites]

Snow and Sky

Summary:

Hikaku knows his own heart.

(And who it belongs to.)

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 440 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

December Lake/mountain pool/hot spring (sex optional) | Kneeling in snow/storm as a show of penance/devotion | Gifts of hair care items as courtship | The student becomes the master | "The will of Heaven."

Part 12 of Secrets of the Heart

"I'm fully recovered, you know." Hikaku doesn't squirm or kick, but he does insist on protesting the rather undignified position he's in. "You don't have to carry me."

"But I want to hold you." The snow crunches under his clan head's sandals, and Madara-sama flashes him a small but mischievous grin. "You wouldn't deny my wish, would you?"

Put like that, there's no possible way for Hikaku to refuse, and he shakes his head, silently resigning himself to the embarrassment of being carried up the mountain.

Read the rest on AO3.

[wordswithloveee]

Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.

[words-and-coffee]

She could not control an instinctual shudder of fear when she saw him, for a lion is a lion and a man is a man and, though lions are more beautiful by far than we are, yet they belong to a different order of beauty and, besides, they have no respect for us: why should they?

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Courtship of Mr Lyon

[thepersonalwords]

Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[tahiriveilasolo]

Wes Janson: Hey Wedge, wanna check out the latest top songs?

Wedge Antilles: I would prefer not to.

Wes Janson: C’mon, Wedge. You’re not that old. How about this one, “the Virtues of King Han Solo”?

Wedge Antilles: Wait, the what?

Wes Janson: *singing* Han Solo, what a man! Solo. He’s every Princess’s dream! Heh, that’s a catchy tune.

Wedge Antilles: What in the wilderness of Corellia is that all about?

Wes Janson: Squeaky recommended it to me. Says a friend of his made this song.

Wedge Antilles: Well I don’t wanna know. Just hurry and leave the ’fresher. You’re driving me mad.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Man frir ikke til Edvarda, hun tar den hun faller på.

- Knut Hamsun

[virtuouslibertines69]

"... for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish"

Painting by Fabian Perez

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Often, one bird fans its left wing while the other opens its right to give a strikingly symmetrical, "mirror-image" effect, while in other cases each pair member fans the same wing in a parallel, but nonsymmetrical, pattern.

A homosexual pair of female Galahs performing a mirror-image "wing-stretching" display

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl